I’ve had these pictures up for a while but never made an official announcement about them. They’ve actually been unavailable over the last few weeks because of all the server switching and site rebuilding.

To see my pictures from I-LEAD, visit ilead.joeyday.com.

I had so much fun at I-LEAD and I just want to give a shout out to all my new friends. I don’t think I’ll ever forget the experiences I had in Indiana that week. Thanks everyone! 

[As of October 8, 2003, my I-LEAD pictures have been moved so that the address above can be used for the I-LEAD 2003 Participants Forum.]

Welcome to the future of JoeyDay.com. Does everyone have their hard hat on? This prototype will most likely go through several revisions before it becomes “live”, but it should at least look something like this when it’s finished. The good thing is I’m re-engineering the whole site with PHP and XHTML 1.0 Strict. For those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about, I will just say that PHP and XHTML will make the site extremely easy to update, which means I will have more time for other things (Janene will appreciate this).

The biggest reason I’m letting you all see this is to let you know that I haven’t simply dropped off the face of the earth. I have been a bit busy what with school and getting FellowSites (a not-for-profit web-hosting fellowship founded by my brother-in-law and I) up and running.

Current plans for the site (as indicated above) include combining my personal journal and our group blog, The Forum, into a single entity (with a new name?). My opinion is that both of them were getting stagnant, and hopefully combining them will revitalize the site. Let me know what you think about this. Maybe you think they should stay separated? I don’t know. Email me. 

So when does the forum get an official joeyday.com make-over?

A few of my UPC friends (Charlotte, Chad, and Frank) were featured on the front page of the Daily Utah Chronicle yesterday concerning some of the events the UPC has planned for the first week of school.

Union combines services
Late-night party organizers hope to attract crowd

Way to go, guys! 

I did it. I’ve made the switch to another browser besides Internet Explorer. It’s the newest project by Mozilla, called Firebird. It seems to load pages in exactly the same way as IE (no major issues with pages looking funny like in Netscape, Opera, or Mozilla). It also includes some other great features such as popup blocking, a tabbed interface for managing multiple browser windows, a Google search box, and an extremely simple, fast user interface.

I’ve admired some of Mozilla’s features for a while now, but never could get past the bloated, slow user interface. It took forever for the browser to load even on my 1.4GHz machine here at work. Firebird is lightening fast (I think even faster than IE) and the user interface is uncluttered and extremely functional.

I would strongly encourage anyone to make the switch with me. Think about it. IE 6.0 came out over a year ago. Since then, there have been no major upgrades in spite of several bugs that have existed since before 6.0. Microsoft thinks they’ve won the browser war, and they’ve become complacent. The stagnant pool can only be stirred if people start to flock away from IE. Let’s do it!

You can find the Mozilla Firebird browser at Mozilla.org. Let me know if you do decide to make the switch, and keep me posted on what you think.